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Daleen's Comprehensive eBusiness Solution Selected by Edge Connections.


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support robust data and communications service offering

Daleen Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DALN), a leading provider of solutions that bond businesses and customers in the digital economy, today announced that Edge Connections, Inc. a facilities-based broadband provider offering a full array of voice, data and Internet services has chosen Daleen's eBusiness solutions for integrated customer management Integrated customer management (or its acronym, ICM) is a business strategy for improving support by sharing information between discrete departments. ICM brings together three business principles: alignment, agility, and customer-centricity. , billing and electronic bill presentment (EBP EBP Evidence Based Practice
EBP Enterprise Buyer Professional
EBP Education Business Partnership
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EBP Efficiency Bandwidth Product
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).

Edge Connections selected the BillPlex(R) ICP (Integrated Communications Provider) Package and eCare(TM) solution to support a comprehensive data and communications service offering for small to mid-size business in metropolitan New York New York, state, United States
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 and Atlanta, regions with an aggregate population of more than 25,000,000.

Daleen's eCare, leading-edge customer self-care product suite and BillPlex, convergent customer management and billing solution are being deployed to support Edge Connections' business-to-business activities with key capabilities that will allow their customer to access services anywhere, anytime over the Internet.

"We sought a package that would meet our most immediate needs which include complex usage based rating, billing and bill presentment for our voice, Internet and data services. Where BillPlex and eCare stand apart from the competition is in the areas of convergence and scalability," said Jim McKenna, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Edge Connections. "We will be realizing a rapid expansion in our customer base this year and are planning to enhance our service offerings to include e-commerce functionality. Daleen clearly was the best choice to meet our needs now and in the future."

Ben Petro, Vice President of Marketing at Edge Connections stated, "Edge Connections requires flexibility and speed to market in order to compete in today's convergent marketplace. After a tough due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired.  effort, Daleen was the clear choice. BillPlex allows rapid product and rate deployment and, most important, Daleen is the only competitor to offer a true end-to-end billing platform for Voice, Data and IP solutions, a position which places them head and shoulders above the competition."

eCare, with its open e-commerce and distributed computing architecture, can support complex eBusiness processes with flow-through integration to other operational support systems (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) and enterprise resource planning See ERP.

(application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses.
 (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) systems, functions which are highly-demanded in the competitive telecommunications marketplace.

Edge Connections currently offers facilities-based broadband voice, data and Internet solutions to businesses and plans to grow into nine major metropolitan markets by year's end and into 30 large U.S. cities soon thereafter. The company's focus is on providing reliable, high-speed telecommunications services to small and medium sized business customers that it believes are being under-served by larger providers.

"With the ability to enhance customer relationship management for convergent usage based voice and IP data services, BillPlex and eCare are an ideal solution for Edge Connections," said Dave Corey, Daleen president and COO. "BillPlex offers them a billing platform that can grow with the company to accommodate rapid customer acquisition and to handle new service offerings, while eCare delivers a complete Web-enabled solution to provide superior customer service."

About Daleen Technologies

Founded in 1989, Daleen (Nasdaq: DALN) is a leading provider of solutions that bond businesses and customers in the digital economy. Daleen's software solutions provide mission critical support to businesses who offer voice, data, web and applications hosting services over packet and circuit-switched networks. The company distributes its eBusiness, OSS gateway, service activation and BillPlex(R) products throughout the world via Business Alliance Partners and other leading certified systems integrators including AMS AMS - Andrew Message System , Business Edge, Cap Gemini, Danet, Ernst & Young, Prolan pro·lan
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 and Unisys. Daleen is an active participant and provides leadership in industry forums such as the Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF OBF Ordering and Billing Forum
OBF Oregon Bach Festival
OBF Oregon Brewers Festival (Portland, Oregon)
OBF Open Bioinformatics Foundation
OBF Out of Box Failure
OBF Office of Budget and Finance
OBF Ohio Bible Fellowship
), Internet Protocol Data Record (IPDR IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization
IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record
IPDR International Project Development Roadmap (Canada)
IPDR Internal Preliminary Design Review
IPDR Individual Program Data Records
) working group and the Application Service Provider (ASP) Consortium. In addition to its Boca Raton, FL headquarters, Daleen has regional offices located throughout the United States, and in Toronto and London. For additional information regarding Daleen's products and services, visit the company web site at www.daleen.com.

About Edge Connections

Edge Connections Inc. is a facilities-based broadband provider offering a full array of Voice, Data and Internet solutions. Edge Connections will utilize non-invasive technology to enter Class A, B and Light industrial office buildings to provide premium communications service. Edge Connections has targeted small and medium sized business customers that are currently under-served for communications services. Additionally, Edge Connections will target MTU/MDU markets as well as Enterprise customers. Edge Connections was founded by Jim McKenna in 1999 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Edge Connections is funded by top venture capital firm Great Hill Partners and the Megunticook Fund. For More information about Edge Connections, contact Corporation Communications @ 877-796-EDGE (3343) or visit the web site: www.edgeconnections.com.
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